Four swine flu cases were reported in a number of public schools in Hawalli and Adeiliya areas, Kuwaiti Education and Higher Education Minister Badr Al Issa said on Thursday.

He added the infected persons are now undergoing treatment, asserting all necessary precautions were taken at schools where the four cases have been diagnosed with the disease.

The Kuwaiti Education Ministry is coordinating with the Health Ministry to provide all schools with adequate vaccines, he underlined.

He stressed that any school reported with more than five swine flu cases will be shut down.